>Do people really use a debugger ? Absolutely; everything from libraries, language development, even in REPL languages like J and R, I use debuggers all the da

>Do people really use a debugger ? Absolutely; everything from libraries, language development, even in REPL languages like J and R, I use debuggers all the damn time, native J/R/whatever, GDB, the whole lot. If you deal with hairy issues, there's no way of solving the problem with print statements, and if you're used to them, they're a lot more productive. You just have to pay the toll of learning the debugger. I haven't uncorked any golang in a long time (~5 years), but I do remember thinking WTF regarding the debugger. I think the idea is to write enough unit tests you don't need the debugger so much. Seems questionable, but what do I know; Google would never hire me. Otherwise I liked golang a lot as a very pragmatic language and ecosystem. I had wished the GC was optional somehow to replace C/C++ tier "systems" stuff, but whatever; it's a fine successor to Java type things.